WHO's Science in 5 - What is Long COVID? - 23 February 2024

Published 2024-02-23
Episode #112 / February 23, 2024 / Long COVID
If you have suffered from COIVID and are still feeling the symptoms, could it be Long COVID? What are the symptoms? Are treatments available? WHO’s Dr Jamie Rylance explains in science in 5

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All Comments (21)
  • Don’t know this could be reason for my problems. Brain fog, moody, congestion, splitting mucus out often, depressed and most of the time, I feel so tired that I have to force myself to do a little meanwhile I am a very healthy active person before Covid stuff.
  • @TaylorRayle
    Long Covid is real and we need answers! It doesn't go away after a year, it's been four years.... for many of us, help us get answers and healing.
  • What of Loss of Smell? I haven't got my smell back since I contacted COVID-19,? How will it taken to come?..Is there any treatment for loss of smell?
  • @abdulyaseen4499
    Sometime I still have shortness of breathing since I got COVID my health is not good,I don't know till now they can't identify the problem for long COVID symptoms
  • It happens on me. Sometimes I need to breathe deeply to sustain my lung oxygen 😢
  • @ssd9597
    I am suffering from these kinds of symptoms from 3 plus years and now i am dealing with extreme fatigue..... Even I can't drive a two wheeler for long distance...it feels like whole energy sucked with nausea and balance issues... problem in concentrating ..... can't think too much....and also experienced weight loss.….All blood test are done nothing is there ..in starting b12 vit was low which i fixed now Vit D is very low ......Other than this everything is normal....then also lot's of weird symptoms..
  • @khushisolanki549
    What a shame, a music video gets millions of views within hours on the other hand such awareness videos don't even get 10k in weeks
  • Some recover within a year, but I don’t know of anyone who has recovered after being sick with Long COVID for a year. Millions are permanently ill with little to no meaningful treatment; our former lifestyles shattered. People who got sick in the first wave are now marking 4 years of continuous, often debilitating illness. Long COVID sucks.
  • In Pakistan even a simple seasonal common cold is being treated as covid somehow i,m asthmatic and i usually has outbreaks of cough due to cold weather, dust and smoke these things exaggerate my asthma symptoms and i,m the one who is a survivor of covid too. Blessed me❤❤
  • @sarahpaty6108
    I currently have Covid and my symptoms are headache, cough, sneezing, blowing nose a lot, achy body, fatigue, but also I have trouble “feeling” my body…if I scratch my head or touch my stomach, back, or anywhere on my body, I have trouble feeling it. Like I’ve lost my sensation feeling. I also feel nauseas but im not sure that’s related. I honestly have trouble expressing how my body feels. I also notice I have trouble breathing when doing light exercise but that could possibly be unrelated I have had all of my vaccinations besides the most recent one, which I am surprised because I had only a month prior gone to my doctor for my yearly checkup and she never mentioned it
  • @anis2642
    What? Wasn’t you saying the pandemic was over?
  • @athenama7415
    Threatment is---sun,Oxgen,Saltwater,lovely point of Vision